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How television differs from the human eye Nipkow system Swinton's proposals Projecting each picture twice Interlaced ... Television ( J.B.I. ) Television is the electrical transmission of pictures in motion and the simultaneous ...
How television differs from the human eye Nipkow system Swinton's proposals Projecting each picture twice Interlaced ... Television ( J.B.I. ) Television is the electrical transmission of pictures in motion and the simultaneous ...
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... television , particularly in connection with electronic computers . Display of in- formation stored in computer memory , or resulting from calculations , is now widely offered to bank tellers , reser- vation clerks , inventory managers ...
... television , particularly in connection with electronic computers . Display of in- formation stored in computer memory , or resulting from calculations , is now widely offered to bank tellers , reser- vation clerks , inventory managers ...
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... television the performance has been more impressive . American writers of the calibre of Paddy Chayefsky ( Marty ) or Reginald Rose ( Twelve Angry Men ) wrote creatively for television as early as the 1950s . But Ameri- can television ...
... television the performance has been more impressive . American writers of the calibre of Paddy Chayefsky ( Marty ) or Reginald Rose ( Twelve Angry Men ) wrote creatively for television as early as the 1950s . But Ameri- can television ...
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